The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1887-11-29
E,H>EI's RECENT FLOP.


Aupr Strange trllitt"i Noh"'
My DEAR BAHNtl:- Pre-umng
upou our friendship If some years
stsndlng aud also sincere ~ east on
NV part, and believe on yours, take
the liberty Of addressing YOU upon
the subject OF your reccu' gymnastic
exercises. have just rcnd your letter
/, the News aud must cXpress my re
gret. not so mucn at the lamcners OF
4he defense. a- that YOU should place
vonr.elf in y position TO require any
defense at all from the righteous in
1ionation of Texas democracy !
observe some bad symptoms in your
oasc which have always found dan
oerous. aud which have disturb d me
Greatly. You used 10 love the press,
Barney. You were the pet Of the re-
oorter-, the freud of the editors,
godsend to interyiewers. The news
yaper man always felt nh assurance
OF hearty welcome and three
fingers OF the b9st, when he met you.
Now, TO hear you use hard words
against them must make their poor
hearts sick. aud cause them to lose
faith in the ConstanCy of man. 1t is
not, however, for the newspaper man
but for you, dear Barney, that am
concerned. They poor devils, are
used to hard knocks and short ra-
tions, but you, old boy, wore raised
pet, and | fear, have tal'.4 n; con-
slider that IN deuo uucing ,nr .tmo-
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path winch Iohn IIanctck and some
other Texas politicians have found.
led to the shades Of private life. it il
bad symptom There is also un
otner still worse, dear Barney
have observed, when a fellow gets
morbdly afraid OF being read out Of
the democratic party, and goes TO
complaining la Caro- !, llernden
aud company, that the world,
thc flesh Bnd tho devil are
all tying to turn him out
oc the household of the faithful. He
always has his face towards tho door
while he Is making tracks with rcas-
enable alacrlty in that direction with
gracefully elevated coaitalls, inviting
the accelcratlug influence of number
h'A bVO's "'''''''' DtAii nv NIhb Oi
are right III your hl9ioryo the inter
nal revenue. ana also az to the silence
OF me national Platforms on inc SUB
leot' Inc internal revenue tax levied
by the republican party during the
war upon WHISKY ana tobacco AT
the same time the same party levied
an qually heavy tax on sugar, blankets
and plows, which they called protcc.
llEe 'aTill' Inc question now present
ca 10 thc people If, whether TO repeal
tno laA Oh sugar or 'hp toA on Whishy.
tue tsA on DIahkets ahd plows or the
taA Oh 'opac'o. ib.sucha dilemma, II
seems TO me that even prohibition
ISL couid make a better guess than
You have done as to which was the
deihocratic norm. But don't get ner-
Fous, bhrhe!, ucar. All our great
men nave gotteh hold OF the wrong
morn occasionally. Mills was once II
Prohloltiohisti hcagah has wrestled
WIN ooth the prohlDltloh horns, and
u'7ceFers 'hat elthcr one cores, while
Cohe nhus ~ equaiIY dangerous to
tuin ioose iho horne ehtlrely. GU
VIII coiic ouI ai rIgh' YET, oiu leiIoW.
pIh9yi may allsay you are false,
7. ~ .'''' ''i',' 'ou rue
"'' 'n"' ~" "'o uh-
uoni'o,n'iO, nnincy' pu' oec"use
%,. 80 ~. '"'o.'is'on. WIN our-
", t'o 1n". .uS. Ooihl,inin Vi you.
IA I'd" sa,.o naro ~ ot",e..i h.. wipcu 'ho sweat
"e,a ',u W o''.io l'oli lour Dro"'
'mo "oU, oon'ue' Wnoio !ouI uarh pune
wa ma'eu tn' among 'he knlgh'hest IN the